The U.S. Small Business Administration has suspended more than 111,000 California borrowers and will seek to recoup $8.6 billion in suspected fraudulent aid linked to the Covid pandemic.

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Celebrities will be appearing in the Super Bowl commercials this year, but they will be paid much less -- as brands tighten their belts and AI-generated video breaks into the year's biggest advertising event.

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U.S. — After watching several videos of anti-ICE protesters viciously hunting people down to check their papers, an impressed President Trump announced he will immediately hire the protesters to join Border Patrol.

Wells Fargo estimates the tab is up just 1.6 percent from last year.

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On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that many of the “Gaza protesters” would “like” to see all of the Israeli people killed. Maher said that arguing no one is illegal on stolen land is “so

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In December of 2016, The Washington Post reported that Russian hackers had penetrated the U.S. electricity grid through a Vermont utility company, leaving millions without heat.

This was serious stuff. President Barack Obama, the paper ominously noted, was concerned that Moscow might also “disrupt the counting of votes on Election Day, potentially leading to a wider conflict.”

As it turned out, the piece had some journalistic lapses, namely that it had failed to report that the laptop in question wasn’t connected to the grid, so there was no way Russian malware could have crashed the system.

The Post never bothered retracting the piece, instead appending one of its anodyne “editor’s notes” and reporting on the subsequent, completely pointless investigation it had sparked with a bad story.

Everyone makes mistakes. In the old days, journalists would probably have been more judicious moving forward. The Post, which had only a month earlier walked back a similarly alarmist piece about Vladimir Putin’s weak agitprop, went in a different direction, becoming a clearing house for the Russia-collusion panic that enveloped American politics. Indeed, in 2018, the paper won Pulitzer Prizes for National Reporting on the fictional claim that Trump had colluded with Putin to overturn democracy.

This week, The Washington Post laid off a third of its entire staff, 300 people. Judging from the reaction of media elites, you may have thought democracy had actually died.

I generally don’t celebrate when people lose their job. As most of us know firsthand, being laid off can be a brutal experience. Indeed, when an outfit such as the Post cuts back its workforce, good people will typically lose their jobs while the worst offenders stay on.

But the unmitigated arrogance and sense of entitlement exuded by journalists, who seem to believe they have a God-given right to work no matter how much money they lose their employer or how poorly they do the job, speaks to the problem more.

Over the past decade, the Post has been one of the leading culprits in the collapse of public trust in journalism. The once-venerable outlet has spent the past 10 years participating in virtually every dishonest left-wing operation, including giving legitimacy to the Brett Kavanaugh group rape accusations, delegitimizing the Hunter Biden laptop story, spreading the Gaza “genocide” lie, covering up Joe Biden’s cognitive decline, sliming the Covington children, and countless others.

You could write a book listing the Post pieces that were so biased as to be basically fictional.

The Washington Post has also been one of the worst offenders of the unsound journalistic practice in which reporters hand-pick useful partisan “experts” or “scholars” to act as opinion-writing proxies.

One memorable example carried the headline: “Vote to oust McCarthy is a warning sign for democracy, scholars say.” (Italics flagging a major incongruity are mine.)

To understand the activist mission of the Post, note that it fired 13 climate change reporters and one reporter whose only job was covering “race disparity.”

Let’s not forget, either, that contemporary “fact-checking” ruse, wherein left-wing opinion columnists playact as arbiters of truth and offer partisan arguments and value judgments under a patina of impartiality, was basically invented by the Post.

The newspaper was one of the few media outlets that could still afford much-needed on-the-ground coverage of the world. A few years ago, however, the paper turned into a propaganda outfit for Arab sheikhs. Forget the opinion side. At least six members of the Post’s foreign desk previously wrote for Qatari state-run media outfit Al Jazeera, including the Middle East editor, Jesse Mesner-Hage.

Needless to say, the Post’s coverage of the Middle East in recent years was rife with disinformation, necessitating retractions and editor’s notes when they were caught—usually long after the damage was done.

Now, I don’t want to make the argument here that the Post lost its audience because it was a leftist propaganda outfit. There are many factors at play. The New York Times, for example, is doing just fine.

One reason its audience shrunk is that owner Jeff Bezos announced last year that the editorial page would veer less progressive and champion capitalism, something that’s apparently offensive to many readers who live in one of the world’s wealthiest metro areas.

Expectations of wholly unbiased journalism have always been unrealistic. Everyone sees the news through the prism of their experiences and worldviews. But there should always be an expectation of factual coverage.

And The Washington Post often failed that low bar.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. 

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Heavy metal legend Dee Snider has resigned from Twisted Sister, prompting the band to cancel the remaining dates on its 50th anniversary concert tour.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar's (D-MN) husband, Tim Mynett, could be in trouble with Islamic leaders due to him owning a wine company in California.

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A person believed to be the son of rapper Lil Jon has been found dead in a pond north of Atlanta, police said Friday.

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A new bill proposed by Congressman Tony Gonzales (TX-23) will add stronger protections to elite Border Patrol Tactical Groups deployed to enhance security at public events or assist with law enforcement responses to mass shootings or other mass casualty terror events. The Homeland Threat Response Act Gonzales proposes comes as hundreds of U.S. Department of Homeland Security personnel deploy in advance of Sunday’s Super Bowl.

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Staff for the WGA West have voted to authorize a strike, claiming that union leaders negotiated with studios in bad faith. 

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The FBI raid of the election office in Georgia’s largest county may have surprised many Americans. But it was building for more than a year.

It began as a state-county standoff regarding 2020 election data and escalated last fall to include the U.S. Justice Department.  

Here are three keys to understanding what led to the FBI raid.  

1. What’s Unusual About the 2020 Ballots in Fulton? 

In January, the Election Oversight Group, a Georgia organization, issued a 236-page report about the 2020 ballot count in Fulton County.  

This week, the report gained national attention when the Election Integrity Network released a three-page summary in the context of the FBI raid.  

The Election Oversight report says 148,319 absentee ballots were counted for the 2020 General Election from Fulton County. However, just 125,784 voters were recorded as casting an absentee ballot. That would mean the county counted 22,000 more ballots than people who were recorded to have voted. 

A staffer with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office responded that its data doesn’t back up the assertion about 125,784 voters recorded.

The Election Oversight report also notes that 74,000 absentee ballots were reportedly cast when polls closed on Nov. 3, 2020. Four days later, 148,000 absentee ballots were announced. The report says that only 16,032 ballot images have their corresponding unique “fingerprint” authentication file, while another 132,286 ballot image authentications files were deleted.  

“The information in this report documents in one place, in a comprehensive manner and exacting detail, the complete mess of an election that took place in Georgia in November 2020,” Cleta Mitchell, chairwoman of the Election Integrity Network, told The Daily Signal. 

“While Fulton County is ground zero for essentially ignoring as many legal requirements as they possibly could, Fulton County is hardly alone in its election malfeasance,” Mitchell added.  

Raffensperger’s office declined to comment on the FBI raid until more details are available. Previously, his office addressed similar issues.  

For instance, ballot images aren’t counted as votes, but are electronic pictures of ballots made during vote tabulation, officials from Raffensperger’s office said at a May 2024 State Election Board meeting. 

Separately, Raffensperger’s office concluded allegations against county election officials of fraudulent counting and counterfeit ballots were false, in a March 2023 report. His office was assisted by the FBI and the Georgia Bureau of Investigations.  

Georgia ranks fifth nationally in The Heritage Foundation’s Election Integrity Scorecard.  

2. What Was the State Investigating? 

The State Election Board issued its first subpoena in November 2024, alleging the documents were missing for thousands of votes in the recount of the 2020 presidential election. The letter to Fulton County noted “unexplained anomalies in vote tabulation and storage related to the 2020 election.”  

“Our subpoenas are still open. The board’s official stance was to take custody of those documents,” Janice Johnston, vice chairwoman of the State Elections Board, told The Daily Signal.  

In October 2025, the state board issued a second subpoena requesting all used and void ballots, stubs of all ballots, signature envelopes, and corresponding envelope digital files from the 2020 election in the county. 

At a Dec. 9 state board meeting, a Fulton County official admitted more than 130 tabulator tapes—which are receipt-like pieces of paper with vote tabulation information—that documented about 315,000 early in-person 2020 votes weren’t signed by election workers as required under state law.  

The Daily Signal reached out to Fulton County Elections Director Nadine Williams and Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections Chairwoman Sherri Allen for this story. Neither responded by publication time.  

3. How Did It Become a Federal Matter? 

In July, the state board passed a resolution to request assistance from the U.S. Justice Department “to effect compliance with voting transparency” from Fulton County.  

On Oct. 30, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections demanding “all records in your possession responsive to the recent subpoena issued to your office by the State Election Board.”  

In November, the Fulton County board responded, “The physical ballots, stubs, and absentee ballot envelopes for the 2020 general election remain in the Fulton County Superior Court Clerk’s possession and under seal” in accordance with state law.  

In December, the Justice Department filed a civil rights complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.  

Days later, Georgia Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney cleared the way for the state board to obtain documents related to the 2020 election.  

On Jan. 28, the FBI—acting on a court-authorized search warrant—removed material from the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center in Union City, Georgia, near Atlanta.  

On Feb. 4, Fulton County filed a motion in federal court seeking the return of all the material removed by the FBI, including copies. The motion asks the court to temporarily enjoin the federal government from using the information.  

“Last week I asked the county attorney to take any and all steps available to fight this criminal search warrant,” Fulton County Commissioner Marvin Arrington said in a statement. “Actions like this mass seizure risk sowing seeds of distrust in the election process.” 

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President Donald Trump on Friday offered an upbeat assessment of the investigation into the suspected kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie. The 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie has not been […]

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Travis County District Attorney José Garza has added another police indictment to his growing list, charging a DPS trooper while the career criminal he chased — a documented gang member with multiple pending felonies — remains free thanks to the DA’s revolving‑door justice system.

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